This is a photograph, of the spook light, that was taken by Jay Patterson in 1980 .  The light that is at the bottom right-hand corner is a car that coming over the hill on E50 (Spook Light Rd).  The light  in the left-hand corner is the spook light.  It should be noted that all the photographs on this page were taken facing east. This eliminates the possibility of explaining this particular phenomena as headlights on hwy 66.
This is the Spook Light Museum that used to stand at the corner of the Spook Light Road. It was ran by Garland (Spooky) Middleton, up to the time of his death.  The museum was abandoned shortly thereafter.
A map outlining the area and how to find the Spook Light Rd (E50).
This is photo11, taken as I was looking down the Spook Light road. It explains in detail the logistics of the the photograph as well as the background objects and lights.


The above photos were taken in a sequence after the first photo these are all time exposures varying from 15 to 30 seconds...  Film type and camera settings are the same as photo 11.



Come see the difference between the pictures above and the pictures of headlights.

Since so many people claim headlights as the most probable cause of the HSL. We have included some photos of the headlights on highway66 and the town of Quapaw. We realize this is not empirical evidence but found it interesting none the less...

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